{"id":351,"date":"2019-01-13T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:58:01","slug":"black-mountain-sugarloaf-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/welsh-summits\/black-mountain-sugarloaf-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mountain & Sugarloaf 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

GW\/SW-041, Black Mountain \u2013 703m, 6 Points<\/h3>\n

We arrived at the car park below Hay Bluff, as always it was blowing a gale over the pass but hey, ho.\u00a0 A quick ascent up the face soon had us skipping between England and Wales along the top border path.\u00a0 It is tempting to set up at the big cairn marking the top of Hay Bluff but this is still a metre below the activation zone.\u00a0 It\u2019s such an easy path along the top that it would be a shame not to head on up the the true summit.\u00a0 There is a small pile of rocks marking the spot, not really what you could call a cairn but maybe one day.<\/p>\n

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It was still fairly windy on top but I knew there were some of our locals listening out for us from Swindon so I set up the beam for a proper activation.\u00a0 It was worth it with a large pile up following.\u00a0 I soon had sixteen entries in the log in not many more minutes, including G8VVY from Wiltshire.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-041 Log<\/h3>\n

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We packed up and were soon back at the car for the drive over to Sugarloaf<\/p>\n

Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 13th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 HR3 5RJ<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 239 373<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 2 Ele yagi<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 16<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013\u00a06(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-011, Sugar Loaf \u2013 596m, 2 Points<\/h3>\n

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Arriving at the Sugar Loaf car park we were surprised by how full it was.\u00a0 We managed to find a space though and were soon heading up the hill.\u00a0 It pretty soon became apparent that we had parked in the lower car park but never mind, the upper one was full as well and only about 40m higher.<\/p>\n

The area is a dog walkers paradise and there are many paths criss crossing the approach so unless there is visibility of the summit regular checking of the map is wise.\u00a0 The approach is quite flat but the final section up to the trig point does get a bit steeper.<\/p>\n

As it was so busy, we had passed numerous groups on the way up and there was a constant stream of visitors whilst we were on the summit, we decided to operate from the built in WT antenna again.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-011 Log<\/h3>\n

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We soon had eight contacts in the log so packed up and set off for home.<\/p>\n

Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 13th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 NP7 7LA<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 268 167<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 Nagoya NA771<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 8<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 2(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-041, Black Mountain \u2013 703m, 6 Points We arrived at the car park below Hay Bluff, as always it was blowing a gale over the pass but hey, ho.\u00a0 A quick ascent up the face soon had us skipping between England and Wales along the top border path.\u00a0 It is tempting to set up at … Continue reading Black Mountain & Sugarloaf 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-south-wales","category-summits-on-the-air","category-welsh-summits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/1024"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}